Time Management- Shaping Outcomes or Managing Emergencies?

How we manage our time is a great way to evaluate our success as managers.

How do you utilize your time?

urgent

Is the majority of your time spent putting out fires?

Dealing with unanticipated urgent issues?

Or do you spend most of your time planning, preparing, anticipating or otherwise shaping outcomes?

My rule has always been that Anticipation is the true mark of a great manager.

I am proud of my ability to deal with sudden “urgencies.”

But I believe that a manager’s highest value is having prepared in such a way that those sudden urgencies never arrive.

Urgent!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 at 3:37 am and is filed under Front Office. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to Time Management- Shaping Outcomes or Managing Emergencies?

  1. tom hempfling says:
    June 26, 2013 at 3:45 pm

    I wish my manager read this blog. I can foresee future failures in over half of the decisions upper management makes daily.

    Reply

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